Migration Becomes the EU’s Biggest Headache

By

Katerina Voutsina

Aug 6, 2015 8:27 am ET

An opinion poll published last week showed almost four out of every 10 citizens believed that immigration is the European Union’s biggest problem. Yet it’s an issue over which the bloc has found it hard to reach a common policy.

It is the first time in the history of the Eubarometer survey that immigration has topped the list of EU problems, surpassing worries about the overall state of EU’s economy, and unemployment. The poll has been carried out by the European Commission, the union’s executive body, since 1973 to gauge Europeans’ sentiments toward the EU and their national governments.

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